[X4U] Can you delete a file(move to the trash) in spotlight?

[Norman Cohen]

Daly,

My apologies as I did not fully understand your question. I thought  
you were asking about deleting a file from a Spotlight Finder window,  
not from a NotLight window. So my answer addressed deleting a file  
from the Finder. Sorry for any confusion.

Norm
On Mar 15, 2009, at 4:05 PM, Daly Jessup wrote:

>> No, I do nothing special. I have a MacBook Pro and use the "delete"  
>> key right above the "|\" key on my keyboard.
>>
>> I'm not using anything in the menu, I'm just using the keyboard  
>> equivalent. The menu equivalent is File/Move to Trash.
>
> The thing is, in my copy of NotLight, there is a grayed-out "Delete"  
> item under the Edit menu. Using Command-Delete on an item in the  
> "Found" list does nothing. I wrote to the author to ask if there was  
> a way to delete items once found, without tracking them down in the  
> Finder and deleting them from there (Command-Delete does, of course,  
> work fine in the Finder, but not in NotLight itself).
>
> He wrote back, in part:
>
>> No; that sounds like it would be a pretty dangerous feature! You  
>> could accidentally delete some important file!
>
> So I am mystified as to why Norman is able to delete from within  
> NotLight, given that the author says he thinks that would be a  
> dangerous feature, and he did not include it in the software! What's  
> going on here?
>
> Daly